Volume 21, Number 7
1997

Editor's Page

A Thank-You to Supporters

The editor and trustees of Abbey Publications, Inc., a nonprofit
corporation, are grateful for the support received from the people
and organizations listed below, as well as from those who gave
smaller amounts. Without their help, we could not make this
Newsletter nearly as useful as it is.

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contributing to the Abbey Newsletter, the
Alkaline Paper Advocate, the Abbey pH Pen, and
North American Permanent Papers,.

We have begun recording donations in a simpler and more efficient
way. Instead of recording the names of people who gave during the
previous 12 months, we will record names of donors who gave
during the current year.

Donations for the first two months of 1998 totaled $1970. Donors
are listed below as Patrons ($100-$400), and Contributors
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Contributors

Abbey Online

Year

Vol.

Nos.

AN

1975-78

1

1-4, 7, 15

1990

14

7-8

1991-96

15-20

Complete

1997

21

1-4

APA

1992

5

6

1993

6

3-6

1994-6

7-9

Complete

1997

10

1

Updated 3/98

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Correction

Roberta Pilette's temporary office telephone number was given on
p. 76c in the last issue, by mistake. Her official, permanent,
telephone number is 212/930-0864.

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ICOM-CC Conference will Honor Klaus Hendriks

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has a committee on
conservation (CC), which has a large number of working groups on
every aspect of conservation. The working groups of most interest
to conservators and preservation people in libraries and archives
are the ones on "Graphic Documents" and "Photographic Documents."
These two are having a joint interim meeting, as the working groups
often do, in addition to the main conferences that are attended by
all the committees.

One day of the joint interim meeting which is to be held from
April 20-22 in Ludwigsburg (FRG) is dedicated to the memory of Klaus
B. Hendriks, who served as assistant coordinator for both working
groups in the past. The symposium is being organized by the working
group coordinators Bertrand Lavédrine (Photographic
Documents) and Gerhard Banik (Graphic Documents). The meeting is
being hosted by the Institute for the Preservation of Archival and
Library Materials in Ludwigsburg and the Advanced Training Program
"Restoration and Conservation of Graphic Art, Archival and Library
Materials" at the State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart.

Leading international experts [i.e., the speakers at the interim
meeting of the two working groups] will present latest results of
their research in restoration in a condensed series of lectures,
most of which will be given in English, some in French. Only 15
minutes has been allowed for most papers on the first and third
days, so these papers must be the "condensed series of lectures"
referred to in the information sheets. Papers given on the second
day, the day of the "scientific memorial convention" dedicated to
Klaus Hendriks, are allotted 25 minutes each.